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Alisa Kwitney

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Alisa Kwitney
Kwitney at the 2012 New York Comic Con.
Born1964
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer

Alisa Kwitney is an writer of comedic romance novels and graphic novels.

Early life

Kwitney grew up in New York City, on Manhattan's Upper West Side,[1] the daughter of science fiction author Robert Sheckley.

Career

Alisa Kwitney has a BA in English from Wesleyan University, where she received the Horgan Writing Prize for Fiction, and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she received a scholarship of merit. Kwitney was an editor for Vertigo Comics. Her master's thesis, was published by Harper-Collins as her first novel, Till The Fat Lady Sings, in 1991. She is currently the editor for Liminal Comics at Brain Mill Press. [2]

Personal life

Kwitney lives an old farmhouse two hours from Manhattan with her husband and two children.[1]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Till The Fat Lady Sings (1991) ISBN 0-06-019021-3
  • The Dominant Blonde published by Avon Books in June, 2002 ISBN 0-06-008329-8
  • Does She or Doesn't She? published by Avon Books in June, 2003 ISBN 0-06-051237-7
  • On the Couch published (paperback) by HarperCollins, July 1, 2004 ISBN 0-06-053079-0
  • Sex as a Second Language: A Novel published by Atria Books, April 25, 2006 978-0-74326890-5

Graphic novels

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Alisa Kwitney: From the Author". Amazon.com. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  2. ^ "Staff | Brain Mill Press". www.brainmillpress.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.

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